“within every analogy is a fallacy”

"Within every analogy is a fallacy.”

"False Analogy. This fallacy erroneously suggests that because two things are alike in some regards, they are similar in all ways."
~ The Longman Reader, p. 728

Turtle by Kay Ryan

Turtle by Kay Ryan 

Who would be a turtle who could help it? 
A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet, 
she can ill afford the chances she must take 
in rowing toward the grasses that she eats. 
Her track is graceless, like dragging 
a packing case places, and almost any slope 
defeats her modest hopes. Even being practical, 
she’s often stuck up to the axle on her way
to something edible. With everything optimal, 
she skirts the ditch which would convert 
her shell into a serving dish. She lives 
below luck-level, never imagining some lottery
will change her load of pottery to wings. 
Her only levity is patience, 
the sport of truly chastened things.

"Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?"

Question: "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?"

quote:
The phrase "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?" originates from the 2002 film "Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams," where it is spoken by the character Dr. Romero, played by Steve Buscemi. In the film, Dr. Romero is afraid to go out into the world due to the creatures he created, leading him to contemplate whether God, too, stays in heaven out of fear. This line has since become a popular catchphrase used to express disappointment or disdain in various contexts, often in ironic memes.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Spy_Kids_2:_The_Island_of_Lost_Dreams 

Answer: "No, God does not live in fear of what he has created! 
God loves his creation and God has ultimate power, control, and justice."

GOD'S PATIENCE

2 Peter 3:9 ESV
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Romans 2:4 ESV
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

John 3:16-17 ESV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Philippians 4:6 ESV
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

James 5:7-8 ESV
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Revelation 6:9-11 ESV
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

Joel 2:13 ESV
And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Psalm 37:7-9 ESV
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Exodus 34:6 ESV
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Isaiah 30:18 ESV
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Matthew 24:42 ESV
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

~ Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche,
from “Twilight of the Idols” published in 1889. 

The quote is also often cited by pioneering existential psychiatrist Viktor Frankl.

"The best revenge is not to resemble your enemies"

 New York Times
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, p. A1, A6

Embassy Aide Quietly Buried Back in Israel

By ISABEL KERSHNER
BEIT ZAYIT, Israel - 

Weeks before, Yaron Lischinsky had made plans to travel to Israel on Sunday with his partner, Sarah Milgrim. He wanted to introduce her to his family for the first time and, relatives said, propose to her. 

Instead, Mr. Lischinsky, 30, was laid to rest on Sunday at sunset, in a small cemetery a short walk from his family home in the village of Beit Zayit, nestled in the wooded hills west of Jerusalem.

Mr. Lischinsky and Ms. Milgrim, 26, were gunned down on Wednesday night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington as they left a reception for young professionals and diplomats hosted by the American Jewish Committee.

The gunman, identified by the police as Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, cried out, "Free, free Palestine!" as he was being apprehended - a call heard in protests around the world against Israel and its war in Gaza, which was ignited by the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Mr. Rodriguez has been charged with the murder of foreign officials, first-degree murder and other crimes. The U.S. authorities said they would also be investigating the attack as a hate crime and a crime of terrorism.

. . . 

Mr. Lischinsky came from a culturally mixed background with a Jewish father and a Christian mother, and was a practicing Christian, according to brother, Hanan Lischinsky, 32

People who had worked with Mr. Lischinsky in the embassy said that over his last two years there, he had identified as Jewish.

The funeral service blended religious traditions and elements. A leader of the Hebrew-speaking King of Kings congregation of Jerusalem - part of a Messianic community that says its mission is to reveal the true face of Jesus to Israel - officiated alongside representatives of the Orthodox Jewish burial society.

"The best revenge is not to resemble your enemies," one of Mr. Lischinsky's family members, who the family asked not to be identified, said during the eulogies. "I choose love and not hate."

"The terrorist who killed my brother," the family member added, "I want to tell him that I love him, that I forgive him, and already I am not angry with him. If one day I see him I will give him a big hug, and I will tell him what a human Yaron was, and I will tell the terrorist how much God loves him, and that I am full of love toward him."

"If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters"

"If there is no God, nothing matters.
If there is a God, nothing else matters"

~ H.G. Wells

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something”

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something,” says Thorin Oakenshield in J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved fantasy novel The Hobbit.
“You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”

~ J. R. R. Tolkien
British writer and philologist,
author of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

Tolkien on the death of his friend C. S. Lewis

After Lewis' death, Tolkien would say, “So far I have felt the normal feelings of a man my age — like an old tree that is losing all its leaves one by one; this feels like an axe-blow near the roots.”

~ J. R. R. Tolkien
British writer and philologist,
author of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

"Wars tend to cause more problems than they solve."

"Wars tend to cause more problems than they solve."

~ Howard Zinn